Lesson 26

Note： This lesson mainly revises the Simple Present Tense and telling the time.

Step 1 Revision

1 Check the homework . Ask some Ss to talk about the picture of orange-picking on SB page 25.

2 Revise different forms of transport (SB page 6, Part 1 ) .

Ask Ss How do you usually come to school?

How many of you usually come by bus? Carry out a survey and ask Ss about their classmates and teachers, e. g. How does Mr/Mrs/Miss… come to school?

Step 2 Revision

Revise telling the time, using a clock or a picture of a clock on the Bb.

Write a local bus or train timetable on the Bb, like this:

A： ( ) 6:20 12:45 7:15

B： ( ) 7:05 1:30 8:00

B： ( ) 7:25 1:50 8:20

A： ( ) 8:10 ? ?

Use local places for A and B. Ask What time does the ,first bus leave .A? What time does it reach B? Then get the Ss to work out the time the second and third buses reach A (2:35, 9:05 ).

Ss should be able to say twenty-five minutes to three as well as two thirty-five.

Step 3 Practice

SB page 26, Part 1. Practise with the class . Then have a dictation： say the following times . Ss write them down as on a digital watch.

a quarter to two (Answer: 1:45)

ten minutes past six (6:10)

half past four (4:30)

ten minutes to ten (9:50)

Check the answers .

Step 4 Ask and answer

SB page 26, Part 2. Ss ask and answer in pairs .

Tell them to ask randomly, rather than in the order written in the book. (They should say quarter to seven rather than six forty-five .

Step 5 Workbook

Wb , Ex.3. Ss ask and answer in pairs . Get some Ss to report their results .

Every student should ask at least 6 questions about his/ her friend and 6 more questions about his/her friend's parents.

Step 6 Listening

Wb , Ex. 1. Listening Cassette . Let the Ss look at the sentences to be completed before playing the tape. Play the tape three times, if necessary.

Listening text:

Sam comes from the USA. He is now living in China . Every day he gets up at about half past six and has breakfast at seven o'clock . After breakfast, he says goodbye to his parents, and leaves home at half past seven. He usually walks to school . He gets there at five minutes to eight. He begins his first class at eight.

Morning classes finish at ten past twelve, and he has lunch ten minutes later, at about twenty past twelve . After lunch he plays with his friends.

Afternoon classes begin at half past one. Usually there are two lessons in the afternoon. They finish at half past three. Usually he plays games or does other things at school , and he gets home at about a quarter past five. He has supper at six, and then does his homework and watches TV. He goes to bed at about half past ten .

The answers are: 7:00, 7:55, 8:00, 12:10, 12:20, 1:30; 3:30, 5:15, 6:00, 10:30.

Step 7 Workbook

Wb , Ex. 2 should be done orally before it is written.

Ex . 4 is optional. Remind Ss of the use of the verb to be in their sentences .

Homework

Finish off the Workbook exercises.